burglarious
adjective
pertaining to or involving burglary.
burglariously
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a word derived from
burglarious.
Example Sentences
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Our chicken coops were made snake-proof, but a more than ordinarily, crafty individual burglariously broke into one, and the hen and chickens sounded the alarm.
From Confessions of a Beachcomber by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
Though true it may be, that of moonlight nights, jewelers' caskets and maidens' hearts have been burglariously broken into—and rifled, for aught Copernicus can tell.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville
When old Filcsik came home in the night time from the tavern of "The Linen Shirt" he found his house burglariously entered, and his fur cloak gone.
From Heathen Master Filcsik by Kálmán Mikszáth
So he is not to be married burglariously and forcibly?
From Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
That was all Michael remembered or felt warranted in revealing, for stoutly he declared his and their innocence of having burglariously entered any premises, let alone the lieutenant's.
From A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier by Edwin Willard Deming
